Monthly Archives: April 2012

A petition calling for the raising of tobacco products in Missouri from the current seventeen cents to ninety cents is being met with jeers from most smokers who feel that the tax hike is unnecessary. Many smokers believe this is yet another example of smokers being stigmatized and discriminated against. However, others are not looking [...]

Kansas lawmakers are weighing whether or not a study on smokeless tobacco should be made, specifically whether there are any negative health effects on smokers who use the products. Smokeless tobacco products, such as chewing tobacco, have been controversial due to claims by some users as to them being healthier than regular cigarettes. The ramifications [...]

In what is coming as a shock to nobody, an Oregon county has put a ban on smoking in public places. This certainly lines up with the anti-public smoking bans that are being seen all across the country, it is worth noting that the ban has decided to group in smokeless tobacco products such as [...]

The heated debate over whether or not tobacco products, such as e cigarettes, should be allowed to use flavors beyond menthol and tobacco is raging on, with Canadian lawmakers seeking to put a ban on alternative tobacco flavors. Critics of flavored tobacco products have thrown around some pretty heated accusations, even going so far as [...]

It is becoming a growing trend all across the country among apartment complexes to ban smoking in the building, regardless of whether you are in the privacy of your apartment or not. The argument that proponents of these bans have is that the smoking that goes on in apartment complexes has an effect on the [...]

Greater awareness is being made to the general public about just what the actual effects of nicotine are. Nicotine is more often than not the scapegoat that is used by most anti-smoking groups use to get people to try and quit. They play up the fact that nicotine is part of what keeps you addicted [...]

An article from the American Council on Science and Health suggests that the lack of coverage about tobacco harm reduction is not only dangerous, but it is outright killing smokers. The article suggests that groups such as the FDA are sending the message to the smoking public that their only options when it comes to [...]